Tracker / CVE-2021-47255
CVE-2021-47255
High 7.1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kvm: LAPIC: Restore guard to prevent illegal APIC register access Per the SDM, "any access that touches bytes 4 through 15 of an APIC register may cause undefined behavior and must not be executed." Worse, such an access in kvm_lapic_reg_read can result in a leak of kernel stack contents. Prior to commit 01402cf81051 ("kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers"), such an access was explicitly disallowed. Restore the guard that was removed in that commit.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.12.13 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.3 → 5.4.128 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.46 |
Analysis
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